Vice President of Panama

Vice President of Panama is the second highest political position in Panama. Position of only one Vice President will be filled since 2009. Previously, there were positions of First Vice President and Second VicePresident, also known as first designate to presidency (Primer Designado a la Presidencia) and second designate (Segundo Designado a la Presidencia). According to the current constitution, vice presidents are elected in the same ticket as president. However, the position of Second Vice President is now abolished and will not be filled after 2009 .

“If the vice president thinks its disgraceful for an unmarried woman to bear a child, and if he believes that a woman cannot adequately raise a child without a father, then hed better make sure that abortion remains safe and legal.”—Diane British (b. 1948)

“Keep your hands clean and pure from the infamous vice of corruption, a vice so infamous that it degrades even the other vices that may accompany it. Accept no present whatever; let your character in that respect be transparent and without the least speck, for as avarice is the vilest and dirtiest vice in private, corruption is so in public life.”—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (16941773)

“Oh, the shame of it! That I should live to see a son of mine try to take a dame away from his father!”—S.J. Perelman, U.S. screenwriter, Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, and Norman Z. McLeod. Groucho Marx, Horsefeathers, Huxley College president after catching his son Frank (Zeppo Marx)